Thread: Task of the month for April 2010

WEIRDNESS AND LUCIDITY
LUCID
I am trying to figure out the passcode for unlocking the parental block for TV-MA programs. I go to ask my mom, and find out I am having trouble walking. I plug my nose and breathe. Trigger lucidity. I go to the window, and spin around, trying to change my location. Nothing happens, but there is suddenly a large minivan outside of the house. I go over to it to check it out, and a guy pulls me in. Since I am lucid, I try to figure out the most creative way to kill this guy. Remembering the task of the month, I get on my head like a breakdancer, and start spinning, kicking with my legs. I escape, and go into an RV that wasn't there before. I find my friends, A and D, and they invite me to watch pornos. I agree, and open the cases. All of them are empty. I wake up.

Got the basic! Task part is in bold.

19.04.2010

Trying to Fix The Dreamworld (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

A quick note from last night: I got some pretty powerful HI when I was going to sleep last night, only about 10 minutes after lying down. Somebody blasted a football at me and hit me square in the chest. I completely felt it, and my entire torso took a huge spasm. I was like,
"What the hell?" since I was nowhere even near asleep yet. I guess my mind just went off on its own for a bit.

This morning: I haven't had a proper, straight-up WILD for quite some time, but this morning I had two. I felt sleep paralysis after... I have no idea how long, and was riding it out comfortably. It came on like a light blanket being draped over me, starting at my head and finishing at my feet a split-second later. Then, I heard my brother come into the room. He was looking for something.
"You asshole, don't wake me up," I murmured.
"What's that John?" he said, and shook my shoulder to wake me. I was pretty gutted, but sat up to see what he wanted. Something didn't seem right. Then I remembered that this exact situation had happened earlier this morning, when my brother had come in looking for a sleeping bag. (He was going on a school trip and was only packing that morning) For (I think) the second time ever, I tried the nose-pinch reality-check. I could breathe perfectly. I laughed that I could have thought this was for real. I threw the duvet off me and got out of bed. As I left my bedroom, things went out of focus. The railing beside the stairs was fuzzy, and bizarrely, everything was upside down. As in, the floor was on the ceiling, and vice versa. I rubbed my hands together, which improved the fuzziness a bit, then set to work on trying to walk on the ceiling. I got down on my hands and knees, then put my feet up in the air. As I did so, I realised I had just completed the basic task of the month on Dreamviews, "Stand on your head". From there I tried to float myself upwards, feet first. I imagined that I was hanging onto the ceiling with my hands (it looked that way anyway), and was looking down at the floor. But gravity was being a bitch, and I couldn't make it off the ground at all.

I had a closer look at my surroundings, and noticed a yellow tint to all the walls. It occurred to me that I could be sleeping with my eyes open, and the yellow of my bedroom walls could be influencing my dreamworld. It was definitely the same kind of yellow. The more I tried to look at the yellow parts, the closer I came to awakening. Realising what was happening, I grabbed a door frame and desperately tried to stay in the dream, but it was too late and I woke up. My eyes had been closed.

Well after a really bizarre sequence of about 20 false awakenings this morning, I was lucid in one of them and remembered to do the lucid task, after that I kept cycling through false awakenings, and it was really wierd. Is something wrong with me?

Nice one, J.D. Looks like you didn't even have to try to do the task It must have really been on your mind.

Do you remember what you did, Belisarius? Or just that you did the task, in general?

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Nice one, J.D. Looks like you didn't even have to try to do the task It must have really been on your mind.

Thanks, did it without thinking. Handy eh?

I tried putting my hand through my computer and my hand turned into a million little atoms and colors. I jumped through. It took me to a very bizarre forest and the cheshire cat was rolling around and juggling his head. This reminded me of the lucid task, except I couldn't figure out how to take off my head, and I've never done a hand stand before. Even though I was lucid this felt very daunting. Instead, the cheshire cat took my head and stood on it... and then I stood on his head. I don't know if that counts. It probably doesn't.

My attempt, just in time for April to be over.

Utter fail of the advanced task, technical fail of the basic task. It was a handstand. Technically.

Lucid.

There are railings criss-crossing throughout the basement. I remember the April dreaming task (last chance!). Stand on your head, right? I go to a place where the railings meet at a 90 degree angle. I grip the railings, and pull myself up into a handstand.



I can feel the burn in my arms. Balancing isn't a problem, but I have to work to support myself in that position. Letting out a huff of exultation, I lower myself gracefully to the ground, grinning all the while.

The advanced task reads "Stand on your head", literally. I concentrate on the shadows cast by the light source behind me, put my fingers over my temples and under my jaw, and gently pull away from me and downward.

From a first person POV, I'm watching the shadows intently, seeing the shape of my head separated from my body. Suddenly, I'm brought back to the starting position. I concentrate on my reflection in a dusty mirror, and repeat the process, slowly. I see my only my silhouette. I bend my knees and try to place my head on the floor, only to find myself in a sitting position, legs bent outward, stretching toward the floor.